--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "peterklutz" <peterklutz@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > There's simply no way the Cheney, sorry Bush, administration > would > > > > want to see Al-Qaeda defeated - or the civil war in former Iraq > > > ended. > > > > > > > I just heard on the news last night that BushCo is funding Sunni > > > groups with ties to Al-Qaeda supposedly to counter the influence > of > > > Shia dominated Iran. > > > > FWIW, according to former deputy secretary of defense > > (in the Reagan administration) Lawrence Korb on MSNBC's > > "Countdown" last night, the money is actually going to > > governments that the administration believes will be > > helpful against Iran, but the administration has no > > control over where the money ends up. > > > > They may have an idea of where some of the money is > > going, in other words, but they aren't just handing > > it over directly to these groups with ties to al Qaeda. > > > > Minor nuance... > > Meant to add, if Korb is correct, the point is > that this isn't another Iran-contra-type scheme, > which is what it looks like when one says the > administration is funding groups linked to al > Qaeda (although that may be an unintended side > effect).
And for the terminally literal-minded, I am NOT defending anything about the administration's Middle East policy. The whole thing is a tangled, bloody mess created by folks who haven't the slightest clue what they're doing.
